Vaal gem question

[ChaozGamer]

I saw a couple videos where a guy was using vaal double strike, it looks like he's constantly spamming it. If I can recall you need to build up charges to use it meaning you cant spam it, is there a way around it or something, I thought that vaal double strike build was kinda cool

[Grumpy]

you cant spam vaal gems anymore. you will get souls after the effect runs out, which was changed in one of the last leagues

[ChaozGamer]

oh ok thank you

[Demethrite]

You still have to charge it, but the gem now also include de base skill. So you can spam the base skill and use the vaal one when it's charged, without having two different set of support liinks.

Plus this league the Soul Catcher flask allows using the vaal skill without expending all charges which result in more possible uses.

Also double strike and vaal double strike is pretty much the same animation, except the vaal version also summon a clone.

[Lagwin1980]

The new flasks and i beleive there are some items with mods that play directly into being able to "spam" the skills

[+|A.O|+]

Er, i think you mean the vaal gem being used continuously.

Well that works for certain vaal gems that store more than 1 use.

Basically, you kill enough things to collect enough souls for one more use before you use the 2nd use.

However, after each use, you cannot gain souls on the vaal skill until it's cooldown (soul gain prevention) timer runs out. So you gotta immediately gain enough souls to use it a 2nd time while the vaal skill is active.

Luckily, the vaal gems with more than 1 uses allows you to do just that. A single use vaal gem cannot be used for such playstyle unless you have the Incursion league's "Soul Catcher" quartz flask.